Watermark went through loads of different incarnations before it ended up how it did on the vinyl release in 2012. I was never happy with it.

The vocals were there as a place holder, until i found something I could use to fill the space.

This is a very rough early version with way too much reverb, badly EQed beat and an abrupt end. So apologies for that, but I thought people might find it interesting.

Watermark (early demo version from 2010)

Abyss

Genre: Corporate
Mood: Optimistic, Positive, Atmospheric, Inspiring
Theme: Computers, Internet, Corporate, A.I., Science
For greater versatility and ease of use, there are 5 versions in the download file:

• Full Version: 2:51
• Bed Version: 2:51
• 60 Sec. Edit: 1:00
• 30 Sec. Edit: 0:30
• Loopable Edit: 1:44

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'Redeemer' on BBC 6 Music - Mary Anne Hobbs show. 

Taken from the forthcoming new album 'Hollowed' out March 18th on Planet Mu.

Pre-order: 

http://planet.mu/discography/ZIQ374
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/hollowed/id1078169137

Ital Tek - Redeemer (BBC 6 Music - Mary Anne Hobbs show)

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Following up to his debut LP 'Ghosts Of Then And Now', released two years ago via shinobis' favourite imprint, Ryan Hunn returns with his second long-player 'Glass', said to move further in the direction hinted by his 'Spectre Vex' and 'Second Sight' twelves. Hunn explains: "I wanted to make an album very different to the first, one with a different palette, pace and energy".

Glass

Illum Sphere - Red Glass [Ninja Tune]

Field Records welcomes a new name into the fold with its next EP. That name is Kiyoko, and it pertains to the UK duo of Jack Lever and Joe McBride. After albums and EPs on Auxiliary and Samurai Horo, they now offer up four more ambient electronic cuts that again suspend you in a blissful sonic world. 

Opener 'Emeralds' is the most sparse and heavenly, with gorgeous pads and gentle melodic droplets all warmed through by subtle vinyl crackle. 'Nancy Grows Up' is driven by a loose and lazy beat that tumbles gently beneath warp synths and cut up vocal sounds. It's a reflective comedown track that is followed by 'The Heights', a crunchier affair with frazzled drums off set by day dreaming pads. Last of all, a fourth (vinyl-only) track - being melancholic and sombre like a post rave Sunday afternoon - rounds out this introspective EP.

Bandcamp

Kiyoko - The Heights

79Ancestors is proud to share "Something Akin to Lust" - the first new Telefon Tel Aviv track in over 8 years, and the first single from the inaugural 79A compilation, "Territories" 

Buy Territories Now:  www.79Ancestors.com/Territories

Telefon Tel Aviv - Something Akin To Lust

Taken from the 'Mosaic EP' - 11/05/18 smarturl.it/mosaic-ep
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Apollo new boy Chris Roth AKA Marenn Sukie joins up for the Mosaic EP.

A rabid fan of drum n bass and hip hop as well a classic soul, jazz and funk, Roth is an accomplished sample manipulator whose richly organic sounds call to mind 'Rounds' era Four Tet, the sophisticated jazz of Cinematic Orchestra or indeed the spacious moods of new label mates Albrecht Labrooy.

Mining audio gold from the widescreen productions of classic 70's music Roth balances an interest in contemporary beat culture with a winsome eye for the golden sounds of the past.

"My tracks have usually around 30 different samples in one tune,” Roth explains “I make a point to never sample 'loops' - it's a mix of pitching samples then maybe adding a synth for bass lines."

The Mosaic EP spans a wide range of moods and tempos - genre is fluid in the world of Marenn Sukie; house, drum n bass and jazz bleeding together, creating a beguiling blend all Roth's own.

‘Into The Silence’ is one of the EP’s real highlights - composed in the main from Polish jazz samples that Roth got while in Warsaw. Epic closer ‘Feels Like Love’ sees him splice three different jazz singers together to make up the haunting melody.

Only his second ever EP release, the Mosaic EP came about following Apollo's own Synkro making the intro to R&S founder Renaat Vanderpapiere. 
Vanderpapiere loved what he heard and instantly signed Roth up, and this is the result; a strong and vital musical statement that suggest a bright future ahead.

AMB1803

Marenn Sukie - Feels Like Love

Buy now: smarturl.it/portraitwithfirewood

‘Waters Rising’ is a collaboration with vocalist Lola Empire and was originally written around a piano sketch that was sent back and forth between the two artists until it became the fully realised song you hear now.  

"I really hadn't expected love to be a theme in the album, but I was chatting with Lola and she told me how she'd fallen in love. I sent her the initial sketch for this and told her i didn't think love was an appropriate subject for it. but she came out with this. 
'love is dark' she said."

Portrait With Firewood

Waters Rising

Debut album Bare II out March 15th via @fakemusiccrec
→ http://smarturl.it/FM023

Bare II

Sober Blend

Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke - His Rope

Grade 10 / Black Acre / Hooversound

www.grade10.uk
prayerproduction@gmail.com

Abyss

Prayer.

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